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Monday 15 February 2010

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Disabling The Shutdown Event Tracker

A new feature in Windows Server 2003 is the "Shutdown Event Tracker" which requires you to provide a reason for each manually-requested shutdown. This information then gets written into the event log.
If your server is not mission-critical, you may want to turn this feature off.

To turn off the Shutdown Event Tracker, navigate to the following key in your registry:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Reliability
(You may need to create the Reliability key)

Insert or change a value with the following:

Data Type: DWORD
Value Name: ShutdownReasonOn
Value: 0

The change will take place immediately

Disable Printer Events In The Event Log

If you don't want to see a printer notification event in the event log you can disable that..

Start regedit and find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers".
Add "Eventlog" and set the value "Reg_DWORD" at "0".